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Stash Sunday – Three Irish Girls Beachtown Mini Skeins

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I have a lot of Three Irish Girls in my Stash.  It’s not surprising, because The Yarn Spot is one of its carriers, but I was collecting it even before I moved to Maryland.  Let’s just be frank: Sharon knows her stuff.

These Beachtown Mini Skeins go with a normal Skein of Beachtown I have.  I dunno if I’ll be using them together, but the colors are pretty typical of my palette.

Do you find yourself trending back to a particular color combination, or set of colors?  Most people do, but I’m not sure if everyone does.

Anyway, the Deets:

Yarn weight

Fingering / 4 ply (14 wpi)
Amount stashed

2 skeins = 860.0 yards (786.4 m)
Purchased at

The Yarn Spot in Wheaton, Maryland
Dye lot

Colorway

Beach Town Mini Skeins

Stash Sunday – Rock Creek Yarn Silk/Merino DK

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This has been hanging out in my stash for a while.  As in, probably more than a year.  It’s one of the cases of it’s so pretty, I don’t know how I’m going to use it.  The design has to be worthy.  Plus, when I bought it I was intending it to be for myself, and since then, I’ve shrunk.  I probably have enough that I could make a WHOLE DRESS for myself, as long as I did it in lace.  I’ve even swatched it, so it’s not like I have any excuse.

In fact… that’s the other reason I haven’t worked it yet.  I want this to be a piece in my wardrobe for many years to come, and as such, I want it to fit for a long time.  So I’ve been waiting until I shrink just a little bit more.

The Deets, as always:

Yarn weight

DK / 8 ply (11 wpi)
Amount stashed

6 skeins = 1380.0 yards (1261.9 m)
Purchased at

The Yarn Spot in Wheaton, Maryland
Dye lot

Colorway

Intense Violet
Color family

Stored in

Trunk

Stash Sunday – Mountain Colors Mountain Goat

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Mountain Colors is a yarn company which which I have a strong and passionate love.  The colors they create are georgous, and when I talk about the company, my passion comes through.  Often, I will walk into a new store, and the first yarn I approach, without even seeing the ball band, will be Mountain Colors.  I was Beyond Thrilled when The Yarn Spot started carrying this yarn, because I love it.  Whoever plans the colorways at Mountain Colors must have the very same color sense as I do, because their colors speak to me in a way I can’t describe.  Other companies I love the colors because they are “OOO, SHINY!”  Mountain Colors I love because the colors say to me, “home.”  They fill the warm place in me that yearns for peace.

Needless to say, I’ve had a fair amount of their yarn over the years, though most of it isn’t documented in Ravelry.

Mountain Goat I love in particular for it’s hand.  It’s solid.

The Deets:

Yarn weight

Worsted / 10 ply (9 wpi)
Amount stashed

3 skeins = 690.0 yards (630.9 m)
Purchased at

Charlotte Yarn in Charlotte, North Carolina
Dye lot

Colorway

Sweet Pea

Stash Sunday – Berroco Ultra Alpaca Light

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This was given to me as a gift from Bobbi, of Covers and Soles.  It’s got a nice hand, and it’s Berroco, which is a solid company.  She said it was too bright for her, and while I admit it is bright, it’s perfect for me.  I like bright colors.  The only detractor is I had a hard time getting a picture that did the color justice.  So you’ll just have to bear with me.  I think this is intended to be a spring-weight pullover.  Something light with a fair amount of drape, but some shape to counteract alpaca’s tendencies.  I must do some swatching before I start.

The Deets:

Yarn weight

Sport / 5 ply (12 wpi)
Amount stashed

7 skeins = 1008.0 yards (921.7 m)
Purchased at

Dye lot

0701
Colorway

4233

Stash Sunday – Anzula Sebastian Seacell/Merino

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Anzula is one of the companies I think should get more love, and isn’t.  The colors they produce, all solids or semi-solids, are of a lovely drape, quality, and intensity.  To of my projects that I’m currently working on are done in Anzula Sebastian.  The brightness of their colors is really sweet.

The Deets:
Yarn weight: Fingering / 4 ply (14 wpi)

Amount stashed

2 skeins = 750.0 yards (685.8 m)
Dye lot

72011
Colorway

Arizona
Color family

Orange
Stored in

Trunk

Stash Sunday

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Yarn Organization 025Today’s yarn is another handspun… I seem to be on a bit of a handspun kick here.  It actually makes sense, since I’m trying to get all my handspun labeled and organized.

I think I might call this one Fairy Wings.  Like Forest Path, it’s a by-product of overloading my carder so it was hard to spin.  Plus, the wool in this one seemed to want to felt just from the moisture on my skin.  It’s going to be a trick not to have this accidentally felt on me the first time I wash it after it’s knit up.

Deets: 160 yrds, 4.2 oz.  Merino and Glitz.

Stash Sunday

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Yarn Organization 030Another Handspun here, this one with a title: Forest Path.  This was spun from some batts I made when I was first learning to play with my carder.  I learned when spinning these that I needed to load my carder up much less… the batts were so tightly packed that I had to do a lot of predrafting.  Finally I just became tired of fighting, and spun it as a think and thin.  It’s a bit overspun in places, but it gives it a nice texture.

The details:  I’ve got 4.2 oz and about 180 yrds.  Thick and thin, about worsted average, getting up to bulky and down to fingering.  Single ply.

Stash Sunday

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Yarn Organization 174Merino Wool, Silk and Angora

This is some handspun that is realitively new.  That is, it’s been spun in the last 6 months.  This was a dream to spin, and I’m tempted to buy up the rest of it from the Yarn Spot and spin that up also.  So nice.  I’m thinking I might want to get a local dyer I know, of Rock Creek Yarns to dye it for me, though I’m unsure of what color I’d like.

The details:  I’ve got 9.78 ounces/ 936 yards of Sport to fingering weight yarn.  Not sure what it’s going to become yet, but I’m thinking a beaded shawl, just so the lace can let the angora bloom.

Stash Sunday

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Yarn Organization 228Todays’s Stash Sunday is brought to you by Classic Elite, in the form of Classic Silk.

I used most on the Classic Silk Mayfaire Camisole.  I like how it came out.

I’m debating about using the rest for another thing (perhaps a baby item?) or just trading it with someone else.

I like how the yarn knits up… nice hand.  Because it is cotton, it grows a little during the day, but it isn’t too bad.  When I made the camisole though I did reinforce the neckline with elastic, so it doesn’t stretch too much.  Otherwise I would have cast off different than the pattern asked for, so it wouldn’t stretch as much.

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